Portal:Visual arts

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The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, comics, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines, such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts, also involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts, such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design, and decorative art.

Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as applied or decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case. Before the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' had for some centuries often been restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the decorative arts, crafts, or applied visual arts media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms. Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts, maintaining that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of the arts. The increasing tendency to privilege painting, and to a lesser degree sculpture, above other arts has been a feature of Western art as well as East Asian art. In both regions, painting has been seen as relying to the highest degree on the imagination of the artist and being the furthest removed from manual labour – in Chinese painting, the most highly valued styles were those of "scholar-painting", at least in theory practiced by gentleman amateurs. The Western hierarchy of genres reflected similar attitudes. (Full article...)

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A Vision of the Last Judgement is a painting by William Blake that was designed in 1808 before becoming a lost artwork. The painting was to be shown in an 1810 exhibition with a detailed analysis added to a second edition of his Descriptive Catalogue. This plan was dropped after the exhibition was cancelled, and the painting disappeared. Blake's notes for the Descriptive Catalogue describe various aspects of the work in a detailed manner, which allow the aspects of the painting to be known. Additionally, earlier designs that reveal similar Blake depiction of the Last Judgement have survived, and these date back to an 1805 precursor design created for Robert Blair's The Grave. In addition to Blake's notes on the painting, a letter written to Ozias Humphrey provides a description of the various images within an earlier design of the Last Judgement. (Full article...)

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Intentional camera movement

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Intentional camera movement is a photography technique in which a camera is moved during the exposure for a creative or artistic effect.

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“	Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.	”
	— G. K. Chesterton, unknown

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Renoir, c. 1875

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

He was the father of actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre. (Full article...)

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Image 1Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951), a nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, and a pioneer of the movement (from History of painting)
Image 2Lascaux, Bulls and Horses (from History of painting)
Image 3Joan Miró, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, 1920, abstract Surrealism, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 4Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 5Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley (from Graphic design)
Image 6Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt (from History of painting)
Image 7A Boeing 747 aircraft with livery designating it as Air Force One. The cyan forms, the US flag, presidential seal and the Caslon lettering, were all designed at different times, by different designers, for different purposes, and combined by designer Raymond Loewy in this one single aircraft exterior design. (from Graphic design)
Image 8Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, rock painting, Stone Age, India (from History of painting)
Image 9Silk painting depicting a man riding a dragon, painting on silk, dated to 5th–3rd century BC, Warring States period, from Zidanku Tomb no. 1 in Changsha, Hunan Province (from History of painting)
Image 10Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, an American Scene painting (from History of painting)
Image 11Max Beckmann, The Night (Die Nacht), 1918–1919, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (from History of painting)
Image 12Pettakere Cave are more than 44,000 years old, Maros, South Sulawesi, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 13Rembrandt van Rijn, The Jewish Bride, ca. 1665–1669 (from History of painting)
Image 14The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida. (from Contemporary art)
Image 15Barnett Newman, Untitled Etching 1 (First Version), 1968, Minimalism (from History of painting)
Image 16Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland (from Contemporary art)
Image 17Spanish cave painting of Bulls (from History of painting)
Image 18Spring Morning in the Han Palace, by Ming-era artist Qiu Ying (1494–1552 AD) (from History of painting)
Image 19Golden section in book design (from Graphic design)
Image 20Paul Klee, 1922, Bauhaus (from History of painting)
Image 21Due to its interdisciplinary nature, graphic design can be performed in different areas of application: branding, technical and artistic drawing, signage, photography, image and video editing, 3D modeling, animation, programming, among other fields. (from Graphic design)
Image 22Piet Mondrian, "Composition No. 10" 1939–1942, De Stijl (from History of painting)
Image 23Loquats and Mountain Bird, anonymous artist of the Southern Song dynasty; paintings in leaf album style such as this were popular in the Southern Song (1127–1279). (from History of painting)
Image 24Henri Matisse 1909, late Fauvism (from History of painting)
Image 25The Eternal Father Painting the Virgin of Guadalupe. Attributed to Joaquín Villegas (1713 – active in 1753) (Mexican) (painter, Museo Nacional de Arte. (from History of painting)
Image 26Book of Hours (from History of painting)
Image 27Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands) in the Santa Cruz province in Argentina, c. 7300 BC (from History of painting)
Image 28Lascaux, Aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) (from History of painting)
Image 29Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art (from History of painting)
Image 30Petroglyphs, from Sweden, Nordic Bronze Age (painted) (from History of painting)
Image 31Muromachi period, Shingei (1431–1485), Viewing a Waterfall, Nezu Museum, Tokyo. (from History of painting)
Image 32Giorgio de Chirico 1914, pre-Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 33Diego Rivera, Recreation of Man at the Crossroads (renamed Man, Controller of the Universe), originally created in 1934, Mexican muralism movement (from History of painting)
Image 34Francis Picabia, (Left) Le saint des saints c'est de moi qu'il s'agit dans ce portrait, 1 July 1915; (center) Portrait d'une jeune fille americaine dans l'état de nudité, 5 July 1915: (right) J'ai vu et c'est de toi qu'il s'agit, De Zayas! De Zayas! Je suis venu sur les rivages du Pont-Euxin, New York, 1915 (from History of painting)
Image 35A Chinese painted jar from the Western Han Era (202 BCE – 9 CE) (from History of painting)
Image 36A fresco showing Hades and Persephone riding in a chariot, from the tomb of Queen Eurydice I of Macedon at Vergina, Greece, 4th century BC (from History of painting)
Image 37Irbid, Jordan, "We are Arabs. We are Humans". Inside Out is a global participatory art project, initiated by the French photographer JR, an example of Street art (from Contemporary art)
Image 38Morgan Russell, Cosmic Synchromy (1913–14), Synchromism (from History of painting)
Image 39Qianlong Emperor Practicing Calligraphy, mid-18th century. (from History of painting)
Image 40Max Ernst, 1920, early Surrealism (from History of painting)
Image 41Lascaux, Horse (from History of painting)
Image 42Colour (from Graphic design)
Image 43An Ethiopian illuminated Evangelist portrait of Mark the Evangelist, from the Ethiopian Garima Gospels, 6th century AD, Kingdom of Aksum (from History of painting)
Image 44Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous, as these pictographs from the US National Park Service illustrate. (from Graphic design)
Image 45Wayang beber, 17th century (from History of painting)
Image 46Juan Luna, La Bulaqueña, 1895 (from History of painting)
Image 47Edvard Munch, 1893, early example of Expressionism (from History of painting)
Image 48Grant Wood, 1930, social realism (from History of painting)
Image 49Gwion Gwion rock paintings found in the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia c. 15,000 BC (from History of painting)
Image 50Baptism of Christ on a medieval Nubian painting from Old Dongola (from History of painting)
Image 51Two Scribes Seated with Books and a Writing Table Fragment of a decorative margin Northern India (Mughal school), ca. 1640–1650 (from History of painting)
Image 52Patrick Henry Bruce, American modernism, 1924 (from History of painting)
Image 53The Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173–1176 AD, Song dynasty period. (from History of painting)
Image 54Brice Marden, 1966/1986, Monochrome painting (from History of painting)
Image 55Mother Goddess A miniature painting of the Pahari style, dating to the eighteenth century. Pahari and Rajput miniatures share many common features. (from History of painting)
Image 56Hellenistic Greek terracotta funerary wall painting, 3rd century BC (from History of painting)
Image 57The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art (France), is a private institution based in a Renaissance castle. (from Contemporary art)
Image 58Juan Luna, The Parisian Life, 1892 (from History of painting)
Image 59Hand stencils in the "Tree of Life" cave painting in Gua Tewet, Kalimantan, Indonesia (from History of painting)
Image 60Pierre Bonnard, 1913, European modernist Narrative painting (from History of painting)
Image 61Eland, rock painting, Drakensberg, South Africa (from History of painting)
Image 62A fresco from Cave 1 of Ajanta. (from History of painting)
Image 63Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE (from History of painting)